>> do you really want 18???
>No, but a group of us are considering them.

If they really are as schlock as they likely are, then you can always put
them back on eBay and dump them on another sucker. Sell 'em in pairs and
maybe even get more than you paid for them

SIP is a relatively new standard. By contrast these are surplus, no doubt
manufacture-discontinued and God knows how old. But even if only a year
old, you can probably count on them not supporting SIP and having no one
to turn to for product support.

This device has been first introduced to the market in Feb. 1999
Coincidentally, SIP protocol has just been approved in Feb. 1999. I would
suspect that it did take the manufacturer (Viennasys) a year to develop
the unit, so it is highly unlikely that it would use SIP as a protocol of
choice. Anyways, it is not in the list of the officially supported
standards for the unit (says the eBay page).
The manufacturer has long vanished, and little info is available on the
device other then press-releases. Unless you'll do heavy Googling to find
someone that hacked into the unit and tweaked the firmware to add SIP
support (if the guts are up to the task, of course), you are out of luck
on any reasonable VoIP implementation based on this device.

BTW, note that it specifically says "Embedded ClientSide Module (ECM)"
which implies that there might also be a server side device needed for
this one to work. Just guessing... Your call.

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